Elective prohylactic cesarean delivery

ACOG Clinical Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Hale, Ralph W ^b   Harer Jr , W Benson ^a  

^a Riverside County Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MATURITY; FETUS MONITORING; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LABOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; PELVIS INJURY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY; SURGICAL RISK; URINE INCONTINENCE; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 19644376195     PISSN: 10856862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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